Spring Garden Acre is a blog about our family's gardening adventures. We call our place Spring Garden Acre, because we live on Spring Road with about an acre. We're located in zone 6b of south central PA. We grow peaches, berries, vegetables and keep a few chickens for eggs and meat.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Harvest Monday

The blight is coming fast, so we're picking toms as soon as they begin to show

One of the smaller, but prettier of our moon and stars watermelons.

Can you see the small Sweet Purple bell pepper in the background?

Okra!

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sure to stop by Daphe's Dandelions to see what other great harvests gardeners are enjoying around the world. Our biggest haul was watermelon and corn. Two out of three Moon and Stars were more than 20 pounds. One of them was 25! We harvested both rows of corn. They were about 20 feet long each for almost 40 pounds. The beans are doing well too, coming in at almost 20 lbs. We're very pleased with our harvests this August. And we're hoping the weather holds on because we still have tons of food (hmhm tomatoes) in the garden waiting to ripen!

What a beautiful watermelon. I don't grow them since I don't like the texture, but I had a watermelon sangria that was to die for. I wish I had the recipe, but since I don't grow watermelons I wouldn't be able to make it anyway.

Great harvest!! I am sure it's a real challenge to keep up with the preserving right now. I can't believe how big your Moon & Stars watermelons got. I guess you have the right soil and conditions for them.

What a fantastic watermelon. I'm jealous we can only grow ice box sized melons in our area because the growing season is just to short. 213 pounds! Wow your two week total matches my year total. I've got a lot of work to do to keep up with you guys!!

Belle told me today that the harvest totals were for closer to three weeks. So I fixed that detail. Still, thanks for the compliment. I hope you reach your 800 lb goal. We're hoping to exceed 1,000 lbs.

You guys need to come down here next spring and give us a gardening tutorial! I can kill a cactus, but still want to start with a small veggie garden next spring. I would love to grow our own produce! How fun and rewarding! ~ Marianne (signed in as the Fick Brothers)

Thanks Marianne. It's not to hard. I recommend not complicating things. Buy some seeds, turn some soil, mix in a little compost and see what grows! We take it one small step at a time around here. Life's to busy for the Gardening Olympics.